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...ward committeeman and patronage worker was there. At the head of the throng-which included members of the city's bureau of forestry, bureau of electricity, bureau of sanitation and bureau of equipment service-stepped His Honor himself. Sporting an emerald hat and a shillelagh, Mayor Richard Joseph Daley marched jowl by jowl with the machine's new hero, Michael Hewlett. The reason for this celebration was that Hewlett had just preserved the machine's supremacy by knocking off its bitterest enemy, the incumbent Illinois Governor, Daniel Walker...
...state Democratic primary had been rough and shrill. Hewlett, the Illinois secretary of state, called Walker "a bum" and an "irresponsible son of a bitch." Walker countered with angry charges of "bossism," saying that the issues all boiled down to whether or not the Daley machine "puppets" would control state government. In fact, Hewlett's victory-by 54% to 46%-reasserted Daley's power over the whole state and enabled the mayor to humble Walker, who had been feuding with the machine ever since he upset Daley's candidate for the governorship...
...went out to many of the machine's 25,000 patronage workers: turn out the votes for Hewlett or lose your city job. The ward committeemen got the message, and so did the precinct captains, who perform every service from bailing kids out of jail to helping faithful Daley followers find city jobs to assuring that garbage pickups and street repairs are made. On election day, the precinct captains strove mightily to meet the voter turnout quotas expected of them. The captains pointedly greeted voters by their names, while lesser machine workers carefully checked off against neighborhood lists those...
...even brisker pace this year. Though Walker is moving even faster, he is deceptively low-keyed at factory gates and bowling alleys: "Need your vote. Don't forget." He is working hard to slice off some of Chicago's ethnic vote, which is usually safe for Daley's candidate. Walker charges that no member of the Polish community has been picked for any county office by the machine this year. To cheers, he announces: "I'm tired of Polish jokes...
...former U.S. Attorney James Thompson, who is likely to win the Republican primary. Whichever Democrat prevails in a race that is considered too close to call will then have to face a tough fight against a popular crimebuster. By successfully prosecuting many politicians, "Big Jim" Thompson has damaged the Daley machine more than anyone else...